I am a scholar, writer, and educator working at the intersection of poetics, the environmental humanities, and the history of design with a focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British poetry. In addressing interdisciplinary questions, my work also engages with the histories of science, theology, and print. My current research asks how the project of a designed Earth became a human endeavor during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and anticipated twenty-first-century developments in geoengineering aesthetics.
I am a passionate educator and educational consultant who has recently taught a diverse and interdisciplinary student body at the University of California, Davis through 2024. As a Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellow at the Center for Educational Effectiveness, I have assisted UC Davis graduate student instructors with pedagogical techniques as well as co-create and -facilitate professional development workshops, including the yearly university-wide TA Orientation.
I am co-founder and -editor of the zine and art collective Neither Down Nor Feathers. I also copyedit, write poetry, and paint watercolors.
In all projects and pursuits, my methods are informed by my eclectic background in academia and the arts, my abiding appreciation and pursuit of collaborative projects, and the fulfillment I find in communities of inquiries and care.
